US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have agreed on the need for a continued de-escalation of Yemen war.

US Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo met Saudi Arabia's king and crown prince in Riyadh on
Monday, but will cut short the rest of his Middle East trip to
attend a family funeral, a State Department spokesman said.

Pompeo will return home after meetings in Oman instead of
travelling on to Kuwait, deputy spokesman Robert Palladino said.
US officials said the death was in the family of his wife, who
accompanied him on the trip and will return with him.

The top US diplomat met separately with King Salman for 35
minutes and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for another 45
minutes, according to reporters travelling with him.

The US Embassy in Riyadh tweeted that Pompeo and the crown
prince had agreed on the need for a continued de-escalation in
Yemen and adherence to agreements made last month at talks in
Sweden to end a nearly four-year civil war between Yemen's
Saudi-backed government and the Iranian-aligned Houthis.

Pompeo has said he would also discuss the investigation into
the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi
consulate in Istanbul in October, but no details of that
discussion were immediately available.

A CIA assessment has blamed Prince Mohammed for ordering the
killing of Khashoggi, a longtime royal insider who had become a
critic of the crown prince, though Saudi officials deny the
prince ordered the murder.

The killing has sparked the kingdom's worst political crisis
in a generation, strained ties with Western allies including the
United States, and focused attention on Prince Mohammed's
domestic crackdown on dissent and the war in Yemen.